'Like we won the championship': New Yorkers celebrate Mamdani's win with cheers, tears and DSA chants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : In the bodegas, bars and clubs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, the mood was joyous - it was an emotional night Inside an election watch party hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene, under the din of pet-nat wines being cracked open, there was a sense of nervous anticipation.
53% : These are the people who fought for Mamdani when he was polling at 1%, who celebrated his socialist principles when others said they disqualified him.
52% : Mamdani will be the first Muslim mayor of New York and its youngest in over a century - but not its first immigrant mayor, nor its first mayor to champion socialist ideals.
52% : "If we can elect a socialist mayor in New York, we can do that anywhere." Passing cars, buses, and cabs honked in celebration with the crowd as the night wore on.
51% : The crowd was a genuine mix: Black, white, brown, young folks and old folks, party gays, butch lesbians, bridge-and-tunnel kids who couldn't even vote in the election but felt its reverberations nonetheless.
49% : "This just shows that our politics are not radical, that New Yorkers actually think what we believe is sensible, and maybe the rest of the country is ready for sensible, commonsense, Democratic socialism.
49% : Better workers means more taxes that benefit the city.
47% : Just after 9.30pm, someone jumped on the mic to announce that news outlets had called it: a record number of New Yorkers had cast ballots in this electric - and often ugly - race between Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, ultimately choosing the 34-year-old democratic socialist of seemingly boundless energy who had shocked party establishment in the primary by winning on a clear-eyed affordability agenda.

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